Not long ago we had firm hanami party in Showa Kinen park – very big place, next to emperors garden probably the biggest in tokyo, it’s very cool to be in such big place, especially after living in concrete jungle all the time…

You may also have to edit “interfaces” file to suit your needs – first run of serer will tell you which record is missing from interface file (in my case it was just “SYBASE”), also, it need resolveable hostname (may need to add your local ip address into /etc/hosts).

(as you can see the only difference is lack of parameter “-b100M” which tells the server to create database of size 100MB)

Change its permission and run it – should start database server.

To test (you need all four statements exported to your env):

LANG=C isql -SSYBASE -Usa

(press enter when prompted for password)

And it’s ready ;-)

Because of lack of time i didn’t have time to check anything more, so i have no idea how stable it is, or does it actually really work..

Have fun…

Update,

after some testing i encountered following problem – i was able to login to database but it didn’t contain anything (only few system tables, but none of system procedures etc), even when creating new master device shows you “creating table…” etc etc, don’t trust it, you will find that even sp_help is missing…

And encountered another problem “All future modifications to this database will be suspended until the log is successfully dumped and space becomes available” – that was easy, i had to extend log segment issuing “alter database tempdb log on master = 100” – this resized log segment to 100MB, and after running script again all went fine.
Now i have fully working database.

Right now i am moving my blog to new server rented in real datacenter in france and in the meantime doing upgrade to new version of software.
If you see this post it means you get webpage from the new site :-)